Michael Saylor opposes BIP 110, warning that filtering Ordinals-style transactions politicizes Bitcoin consensus rules.
Bitcoin stalled at $65K as oil price surged amid renewed U.S-Iran…
July 18, 2026, 9:00 pmStrategy founder Michael Saylor published a lengthy essay Saturday rejecting BIP 110, a proposed Bitcoin softfork that would temporarily restrict several types of transactions carrying non-payment data.
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Two U.S. service members were killed, one remains missing, and several others were wounded during an Iranian missile and drone attack on a Jordanian air base. The deaths are the first caused by direct Iranian fire since the war began, while four evacuated troops have already left the hospital.
A prior December raise instead funded stakes tied to SpaceX and Figure AI, which the company says are its two AI infrastructure investments to date.
Sixteen years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto answered a doubter on a forum in 2010, and the reply still guides how the network defends its money today. A Forum Post That Set the Rules On July 16, 2010, a user named bdonlan questioned Bitcoin’s double SHA-256 hashing on the Bitcointalk forum.
Bitcoin traded near $62,900 on Friday afternoon, down roughly 38% from its October 2025 all-time high, as Brent crude settled above $85 and the Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed to normal commercial traffic. By early Saturday, it had recovered to around $63,900, then traded flat throughout the EU morning.
Bitcoin is entering a potentially sensitive phase as unusual activity from long-dormant wallets coincides with a period of technical consolidation around the $64,000 area.
Large traders are betting on a BTC price rise to $72,000 by the end of the month, latest options market flow suggests.
The SEC has approved a NYSE Arca rule change that raises position and exercise limits for options on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, giving…
With ETFs finally shifting to inflows, will Bitcoin recover from its long-stretched slump?
Iran strikes Saudi Arabia for the first time in months, sending oil prices surging 3-7% and pushing Bitcoin below $62K as crypto markets react…
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